310 East Weber Road
The Van Ness family lived at 310 East Weber from about 1947 to about 1950.
This is the front of the house with Margaret Van Ness Nelson’s brother John Van Ness standing in front.
Though the house was on the north side of Weber, the building itself faced north toward a right-of-way that was never developed into a street. Or maybe the right of way was partially developed and is now “Iswald Road”?
There were 4 houses between 310 E Weber, and the corner of Weber and Calumet. The current house on that corner hadn’t been built yet when the Van Nesses lived there.
This is a side view–the east side–of 310 E Weber.
Margaret writes, “Our front yard was a ditch that was supposed to be a street but was never built. We played in the woods. We called it the Hala [after ‘Walhalla’]. There was the first Hala and the second Hala, which is where the white Mooney house still stands. It was sort of scary so we didn’t go near it. On the other side of Hala #2 was where Darien and Jan Mooney lived in a one-story house, which intrigued us with the kitchen on the first floor.”
The house at 310 Weber was eventually torn down to make a parking lot for Crestview School.
[Vintage photos courtesy of Margaret Van Ness Nelson.]